film codes and genre conventions preliminary exercise 4

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 Symbolic codes close reading of Valerian official trailer #1 (2017)

Symbolic codes is what is shown in a film to help find the deeper meaning of the film. Symbolic codes are used show a deeper meaning behind and actors actions and it helps the audience to find that meaning from the decoding of theses codes.  Producer may have actors using props or place them in setting to show the symbolic codes. Examples of symbolic codes would be the mise en scene of the film, setting , colors, or the acting within the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_shrCoqWh9k

Today in class we were asked to watch the trailer listed above and decode it. This trailer was about this city of a thousand planets were in trouble because human wanted to take it from them. throughout me watching this trailer i found that the genre that it had in it was drams, sci-fi, adventure, and action. i found these through the setting and through the props that were shown in the trailer. this movie had aliens proving the fact that it was a sci-fi and guns along with explosion and bright colors and loud sounds showing that it was action.


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